Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City
Hall after 187 years
New York Post,
by
Julia Marsh
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
11/22/2021 9:50:29 PM
Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens.
Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall where its resided for nearly two centuries—because he owned slaves. About a dozen workers with Marshall Fine Arts spent several hours carefully removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the City Council chambers and surrounding it with sections of foam and wooden boards.
They then lowered the massive structure down the stairs leading to the building’s first-floor rotunda with a pulley system
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 11/22/2021 9:59:40 PM (No. 986030)
Mental pygmies removing the statues of historical giants.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
snakeoil 11/22/2021 10:12:50 PM (No. 986042)
To be replaced with a statue of de Blab strangling a ground hog. Jefferson used to be on the Two Dollar bill. I wish I had kept the ones I had.
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Sooo, what are they going to do about Kamala? Her ancestors were slaveholders in Jamaica. Probably in India as well.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 11/22/2021 10:21:02 PM (No. 986048)
Daye gona bee puttinn aa statuuu of Snoop Doogg
Hee mye dawg
Aintz dunnn nuffin, hav eye?
Hee mye dawg!
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No.1 ,,, mental pygmies is right. However, since the pygmies are busy taking down current statues; they are teaching future sloppy nothings to remove their heritage.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
EQKimball 11/22/2021 10:47:07 PM (No. 986066)
Joe Biden;s family also owned slaves. Source: The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/572125-biden-ancestors-owned-enslaved-people-genealogist-says
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Condor44 11/22/2021 11:24:03 PM (No. 986082)
Idiote! Tear down all 5he George Floyd monuments in retaliation! Why hasn't Biden addressed this travesty? FDB, FJB!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 11/23/2021 12:35:09 AM (No. 986102)
Trash who aren't fit to carry his coat think that they degrade Jefferson, when actually they show their own hate, ignorance and stupidity.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
web 11/23/2021 12:48:04 AM (No. 986104)
So, he "owned" slaves. He probably treated them as family, educated them, and in all respects did well by them. I often wonder what all these "woke" people would do if them lived back then and saw a black family on the auction block. Would they walk away, because they would "never own slaves," or would they take pity on them, prevent a black family from being sold and separated, and buy and own slaves? No one today knows Jefferson's mind and his motive for owning slaves. It could well have been out of Christian charity and empathy. It certainly wasn't charitable at the end of the Civil War to suddenly free many thousands of blacks... who were uneducated, without skills, left to wander the roads without a home, a roof over their heads, or anything to eat.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/23/2021 1:34:57 AM (No. 986124)
Did they also remove the statue of Sally Hemings? What used to be the Big Apple is just another horse apple.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Krause 11/23/2021 5:27:29 AM (No. 986171)
The left and their backward vision!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 11/23/2021 5:59:54 AM (No. 986184)
Put that mayor in a wooden crate and haul him off to a warehouse storage.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
5 handicap 11/23/2021 6:02:38 AM (No. 986186)
Still another reason to never go there and to despise New York! Parasites and Criminals!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/23/2021 6:40:24 AM (No. 986209)
They tear down the statues of those they know they will never equal so they won't be reminded of their own inadequacies.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/23/2021 6:59:25 AM (No. 986222)
Yankee city in a Yankee state....avoid at all cost.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Norway 11/23/2021 8:08:49 AM (No. 986290)
The last real American leaving NYC please turn the lights off.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/23/2021 8:13:33 AM (No. 986295)
16 I think all real Americans left New York in such a hurry they didn't have time to turn off the lights.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RCFLyer98 11/23/2021 8:16:21 AM (No. 986299)
No. 6, the link has been taken down. Hmmm . . . wonder why? s/c off.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chillijilli 11/23/2021 8:17:07 AM (No. 986302)
Fine. Next we should crate up Kamala because just looking at her might remind East Indians of the shameful caste system.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 11/23/2021 10:39:50 AM (No. 986459)
And New Yawkers say they're tough PFFFTT
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Penney 11/23/2021 1:11:56 PM (No. 986605)
The looters are still at it. Eventually they will loot the country, ...if they can.
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"Dat crakka gotta go." Amazing that they removed it instead of smashing it with rocks and sticks in situ.